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- From: gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Rowan John Virgin)
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- Subject: primordial soup with croutons
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 03:45:04 GMT
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- It had all been settled, until just two weeks before the end of the Michaelmas
- Term. The University Russian club had thrown a party for some visiting Soviet
- lecturers and Dawling had found himself pouring out his problems to a pleasant
- young man from the city of Kizhi.
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- Dawling had not seen him again until the language course in Moscow. And again
- when he was posted to Moscow as second secretary. And again seven years later
- when he returned as head of Chancery.
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- `I have always dreamed of opening a filling station on a quiet little B-road.'
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